$340 $480
Amazon has the Drobo DRDS4A21 5N 5-Bay NAS Storage Array with Gigabit Ethernet for $340 with free shipping. Same price at B&H Photo Video (ends 4/3).

Has Drobo BeyondRAID and CIFS, SMB, and AFP protocols.
$340 retail: $480
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bclinton
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Posted 04/03/2017 at 04:53 PM PT
Posted 04/03/2017 at 04:53 PM PT
Never understood why anyone would buy this....
Dwayne
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Posted 04/03/2017 at 11:04 PM PT
Posted 04/03/2017 at 11:04 PM PT
Redundancy for your music, movie, and photo collections is why. No had failure will take you down and it can back up to AWS accounts.
Dwayne
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Posted 04/03/2017 at 11:05 PM PT
Posted 04/03/2017 at 11:05 PM PT
Hdd, not "had failure"
dave_c
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Posted 04/04/2017 at 03:54 PM PT
Posted 04/04/2017 at 03:54 PM PT
^ Still, any random $80 computer can do this so long as it doesn't come in an OEM case with limited drive bays, or just connect a USB3 external HDD, then you can unplug it and have the higher security of it being offline, and unpowered.

Plus, if it's an always on 24/7 computer, it can also run other services for you. It might consume 15W more power (if not underclocked) but it would take a long time to recoup the cost difference if ever.
wildumut
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Posted 04/05/2017 at 07:20 AM PT
Posted 04/05/2017 at 07:20 AM PT
5N2 is out this month, specs below:
5 drive bays (3.5" SATA or SSD)
Drobo Disaster Recovery technology
2x Gigabit Ethernet (cables provided)
Optional mSATA SSD improves performance up to 3X
Power fail protection with battery backup
BeyondRAID for advanced data protection
Support a single Smart Volume of 64TB
Mixed drive size utilization
Single or dual disk redundancy
Thin provisioning and reclamation
Virtual hot spare
Drive re-ordering

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Posted 11/11/2014 in Servers & NAS
$360 retail $600